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Ukraine: One Year On

From the heart of the conflict in Ukraine's East, to anxious temporary exile abroad, and the ways Moscow builds morale: Â鶹ÊÓƵAV correspondents on what they've seen over a year of war.

Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from Â鶹ÊÓƵAV correspondents marking a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Orla Guerin, Senior International Correspondent, reports from Donbas in Ukraine's east, a region she has returned to again and again - not just during the last year, but on several previous visits. She describes how the sense of danger there has been so constant that it's beginning to grow blunted for people living under the repeated rocked fire.

Â鶹ÊÓƵAV Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg recounts his own feelings of surprise - even disbelief - at Vladimir Putin's decision to invade, and reflects on how far the Russian public has bought into government propaganda on the 'special military operation'.

Vitaliy Shevchenko grew up in Ukraine - speaking Russian - like many child of the post-Soviet world. Now presenter of the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV's Ukrainecast, he has lost several friends during the conflict, though managed to evacuate his parents out of his home town of Zaporizhzhia. Over the past year, he's followed the shift in Ukraine's international standing - and that of its leader.

Sarah Rainsford, Eastern Europe Correspondent, has followed the story of Ukrainians escaping the war from the outset. Along the Polish/Ukrainian border, she talks to some people who have only recently fled about what prompted their decisions to leave after living through a year of war.

Producer: Polly Hope
Production Co-Ordinator: Helena Warwick-Cross

Insight, wit and analysis from Â鶹ÊÓƵAV correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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  • Sat 25 Feb 2023 16:06GMT
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